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there are a few in the archives but they're mostly the french educated lower rank officers and they have a particular perspective. the most detailed documents were the accounts of white french officers and these accounts they wrote shortly after the campaign a couple of months or year or two after the campaign and they rode them with a very different purpose. they rode them to highlight certain soldiers who should get military medals and they also read them because the french government and the army wanted to understand what had gone wrong in 1940, why did we use this campaign so disastrously so it wasn't about human rights or not document in the massacres, but in the context of trying to explain the defeat, the officers very often gave a lot of detail on what had actually happened in the combat right after these people were taken prisoner so those are the most important sources. the soldiers in the diaries admit that they did kill africans. very few of them, but what you can see in the german source mostly the stereotypes about men eating african soldiers that mirror almost 1-1 in the p
there are a few in the archives but they're mostly the french educated lower rank officers and they have a particular perspective. the most detailed documents were the accounts of white french officers and these accounts they wrote shortly after the campaign a couple of months or year or two after the campaign and they rode them with a very different purpose. they rode them to highlight certain soldiers who should get military medals and they also read them because the french government and the...
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chance to revisit all the happy memories and one of the things that i -- is my father taught me to value education. he was such a tirade about it and he often threatened to send me back to mexico if i didn't do well in school. >> with the is a scary threat? >> that was a scary threat because i believed him. i didn't want to go back to mexico and i wanted to make him proud. another thing i felt, i felt that i owed him that. i never wanted my father to say i shouldn't have brought you and it was bad but really like always was motivating me to do well in school and to do all these great things that he wanted me to do. i didn't want to hear that ever from my dad. he never said that he didn't but my dad, and i was writing the book i really wanted to make sure that he didn't come across as the villain in the story. i really wanted to give him his humanity. he has had some really great things. he was dealing with a lot of difficulties that affected our relationship. >> you tell a story here about how you wanted to go to church one sunday and he held up a budweiser and he said, this is my god. >> yes, yes
chance to revisit all the happy memories and one of the things that i -- is my father taught me to value education. he was such a tirade about it and he often threatened to send me back to mexico if i didn't do well in school. >> with the is a scary threat? >> that was a scary threat because i believed him. i didn't want to go back to mexico and i wanted to make him proud. another thing i felt, i felt that i owed him that. i never wanted my father to say i shouldn't have brought you...
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i want to educate kids and i want to help them and i want to do what i can for marines. so let's start a scholarship fund. she said, well, on top of that, how much money do you think you can raise? i said, i don't know, about a million dollars. and she said, all right, we'll give you about a year. within four months, i raised $1.2 million. i did on my first 12 scholarships yesterday. it has been great. [applause] with that, i teamed up to go out and try to get veterans jobs. we are going out and speaking and i'm trying to help guys get jobs. i am standing up trying to make a difference. i hope when you read the book, you go home and you read everything that i talk about and how it makes a difference. and i want to say that i am going on and speaking and doing it for the men and women who sacrificed so much. because every day that you don't do that, if you don't do the best you can, you are disgracing all those men and women who have paid so much for. and i want to let you know something. i'm not okay with that. are you? thank you so much. i really appreciate it. [applaus
i want to educate kids and i want to help them and i want to do what i can for marines. so let's start a scholarship fund. she said, well, on top of that, how much money do you think you can raise? i said, i don't know, about a million dollars. and she said, all right, we'll give you about a year. within four months, i raised $1.2 million. i did on my first 12 scholarships yesterday. it has been great. [applause] with that, i teamed up to go out and try to get veterans jobs. we are going out...
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for education, he listed occidental college, columbia university, and harvard law. listed his grades is not available. his interests were basketball, marxist literature, writing about myself, talking about myself, making money, and saving the world. and the mainstream media fell in love with this highly qualified applicant. they fell in love with him because they liked the trifecta of the first black male liberal president. it didn't hurt that he went to the college is that the mainstream media adored. sarah palin attended all kinds of colleges, she was a sportscaster, helped her husband, became mayor, and one becoming the first woman to serve as government in the state's entire history. but the media went after her wetter than swoon like they did with president obama. katie couric tried her best to derail sarah palin. she spent a full day with her. she asked sarah palin what newspapers she read. she didn't name any that katie couric approved of. so she did love. this is different. it was sarah palin. katie couric had what she wanted. can you imagine if katie couric
for education, he listed occidental college, columbia university, and harvard law. listed his grades is not available. his interests were basketball, marxist literature, writing about myself, talking about myself, making money, and saving the world. and the mainstream media fell in love with this highly qualified applicant. they fell in love with him because they liked the trifecta of the first black male liberal president. it didn't hurt that he went to the college is that the mainstream media...
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this was very much upper middle class college-educated suburban people who said this is intolerable, we want action, and literally within six or seven months the environmental protection agency was established by richard nixon who was no tree hugging environmentalists let me tell you. there were seven or eight major pieces of legislation that passed the clean water act and safe drinking water act and so on. a tremendous change. and this was done in response to public pressure. public pressure exhibited by people going out in the streets taking part in demonstrations. next one is the march on washington. we just slipped by the 49th anniversary of the march on washington which on august 28th 1963i was there. it was a festival of democracy and unbelievable moment of shining idealism in america that america's dream of participation in equality for all could actually be realized. i had come from the south and i had seen a kid sitting at the lunch counters and i would walk with the kids and birmingham when they unleashed the police dogs and turned the fire hoses on the demonstrators and i
this was very much upper middle class college-educated suburban people who said this is intolerable, we want action, and literally within six or seven months the environmental protection agency was established by richard nixon who was no tree hugging environmentalists let me tell you. there were seven or eight major pieces of legislation that passed the clean water act and safe drinking water act and so on. a tremendous change. and this was done in response to public pressure. public pressure...
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>> we have an educational theme, and at this point, too, it's in any war-torn country. people from some of the areas over there, too. and we hope to be able to get into other countries as we expand. we really just started two years ago, and the requests are starting to come in more from individuals but we also have large shipments that go to you humanitarian warehouses and they pull from them, and each one of them is packed with information about matthew and the project and about the -- where it came from. i have wonderful pictures of principals in the schools over there, holding matthew's picture and saying, some day we'd like to meet this woman because we thank her for these tools for our children. so, most of it has been local. it started -- our biggest launch came when teresa actually went into gulf port high school, where she was stationed, my daughter-in-law, and said my husband and i have been president and vice president of our student council and wonder if your student council would like to do this, and she called me two weeks later and said, i have boxes all o
>> we have an educational theme, and at this point, too, it's in any war-torn country. people from some of the areas over there, too. and we hope to be able to get into other countries as we expand. we really just started two years ago, and the requests are starting to come in more from individuals but we also have large shipments that go to you humanitarian warehouses and they pull from them, and each one of them is packed with information about matthew and the project and about the --...
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worse, education, employment, home. so if anybody else makes any one of those criteria can for example come his son joe hill no longer lives in the state of maine, we collecting. we've been collecting books since 1836 year the library. we have a number of unique or very rare items. for instance, we have a copy of the first edition of the book of mormon, which has been in the state library since approximately 1848, was published in 1830. the first run was 5000 copies and in institutions there were fewer than 10% of that left. what makes our copy a little bit different is if you can do the maine state library, will pull it out of the state do much to at it. with gloves. because that connection to sacred literature is so important to so many people, that we think that is something valuable we can do. we believe in preserving books. but there's no point in preserving them without access. so that is something we do with that of the differently than other libraries. there is one item that we do not let anybody actually touch.
worse, education, employment, home. so if anybody else makes any one of those criteria can for example come his son joe hill no longer lives in the state of maine, we collecting. we've been collecting books since 1836 year the library. we have a number of unique or very rare items. for instance, we have a copy of the first edition of the book of mormon, which has been in the state library since approximately 1848, was published in 1830. the first run was 5000 copies and in institutions there...
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so, the people who get out, have enough of them that they are educating us about the truth of life in north korea. there've been several books published and we now have a much better picture of what the truth of the existence is there. but the north korean refugees are performing a second equally important function. i do believe more important. they are hoping their own information starved homeland, just as the world now knows more about north koreans, north koreans still far more about the period. this is to thanks to the efforts of north koreans who have escaped. how did they do that? think a minute. an immigrant. with the first thing he wants to do? he wants to let his family back home know he's okay and tell them about his new life. before a north korean who wants to do that, it's next to impossible. you can't make a phone call to north korea. you can't send an e-mail or text message or facebook and you can't even mail a letter. so the exiles have created a black market in information. they hire chinese careerist across the border and deliver messages, or sometimes they deliver ch
so, the people who get out, have enough of them that they are educating us about the truth of life in north korea. there've been several books published and we now have a much better picture of what the truth of the existence is there. but the north korean refugees are performing a second equally important function. i do believe more important. they are hoping their own information starved homeland, just as the world now knows more about north koreans, north koreans still far more about the...